The rich will get their tax cut.

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Monday December 06, 2010 · 10:43 AM PST

2010/12/06 · 10:43

There's been a lot of debate about will Obama, can Obama get just the middle class tax cut through without also giving up the additional tax cut on income above $250k.

Politically, the idea's a winner right now. 53% of Americans support the idea. Only 25% of independents want tax cuts for all, while 47% support the President's plan and 17% say get rid of them all (11% don't know).

However, after this weekend's vote, I think the writing is on the wall: the rich will get their tax cuts. It's completely unavoidable. The question is whether the Democrats will get something in return.

TheCavis

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Sunday November 21, 2010 · 8:53 PM PST

2010/11/21 · 20:53

Since I'm flying tomorrow (leaving O'Hare, of all places), I've been anxious, terrified, nervous, panicked, relaxed and then manic about the new TSA security. My ride drops me off a little after 4.30, will I be able to catch my 7 PM flight back home?

Will I be selected to go radioactively au naturale? Or should I get groped until they feel resistance?

And for the love of all that is logical, why is this going on? Even Hillary Clinton, when asked whether she'd go through the pat down procedure, replied "Not if I could avoid it. No. I mean who would?"

Well, I spent most of the day reading and ended up on the TSA.gov site. There, I realized something that seemed really, really odd. They kept putting up all this information that was supposed to promote how effective they were but... it really showed the opposite.

I apologize for the image format, but I actually made this up to put on Reddit (which has hysterically named the TSA opposition subreddit "OperationGrabAss").

TheCavis

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Tuesday November 09, 2010 · 6:10 PM PST

2010/11/09 · 18:10

Yesterday, I posted a diary on the futility of the GOP's YouCut program, which allows people to vote on which program to cut. I think this image summarizes it nicely:

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Quite simply, I found that the cuts that YouCut was proposing, while sounding impressive due to the use of the word "billions" and adding up the savings over 10 year periods, quite simply didn't amount to much. As part of making that graph, I came across a table, a wonderful, wonderful table filled with numbers: the White House OMB's budget information supplemental tables. So many numbers to play around with...

TheCavis

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Monday November 08, 2010 · 3:44 PM PST

2010/11/08 · 15:44

YouCut is Eric Cantor's pet crowdsourcing project to choose what programs the GOP would target, in an attempt to prove that they're fiscal conservatives. (caution: videos autoplay on every page)

It was been mentioned before on dKos back in May, but since then they've been tabulating the votes and have started naming cuts they want. They've also won control of the House next year, meaning they've got the chance to take serious, cost cutting measures. It's time to see what the YouCut crowd has come up with, add up all the savings and revel in our fiscal solvency! Let's start the countdown!

TheCavis

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Friday September 24, 2010 · 10:56 AM PDT

2010/09/24 · 10:56

Maddowblog tweeted this morning:

Your help needed. Our search of Team Christine found mostly out-of-staters. You? http://bit.ly/... #O'Donnell

There's the minor typo (Twitter hash tags can't have special characters, so O'Donnell just showed up as #O), but I found the question interesting and, having time on my hands, I decided to give it a quick spin.

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The rich will get their tax cut.

My TSA mini-diary

Fun with the budget (w/charts!)

12 Weeks of "YouCut!", the crowdsourcing budget balancer

Who is "Team Christine"? (From Maddowblog)